World Cup Low on Scoring but High on Drama
Jerry Dowling Of the sports for which sports fans profess their dislike, the low-scoring variety are most likely to be targeted for derision. Hence, the oft-stated dislike of soccer, for which the possibility of a nil-nil outcome frequently passes as an argument against the game's worthiness. Baseball has taken similar lumps through the years…
News: Disappearing Schools
Matt Borgerding Board President Susan Cranley (right) led a bloc that wants Superintendent Rosa Blackwell (center) to further study enrollment figures before presenting a specific plan for more school cuts. First it was 66, then it was 64 and soon it could be 55. Due to the city's population loss and declining enrollment, Cincinnati…
Cincinnati Entertainment Awards
ETC Annie Fitzpatrick is nominated for a CEA for Leading Actress in a Play. On Aug. 25, the 10th annual CINCINNATI ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS will be presented at UC's Corbett Auditorium. In this issue you'll find a ballot (page 52) to send in your vote, or you can do it online at ETC Annie…
Uncut
HOT Daunting Debutantes This week's "List to Get Your Panties in a Bunch" comes from British cultural mag, Uncut, whose latest issue features their poll results for the 100 "Best Debut Albums." Considering most every other publicly voted on survey from England slobs the knobs of Oasis (one such poll recently named their debut, Definitely…
Television and Radio: Creep Show Revisited
Erik Heinla William Hurt is a hitman in "Battleground," the first installment in TNT's four-week miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes. S omewhere along the way into the new millennium, cable television woke up in a nightmare realm. Censors at the major networks lurked along the shadowy periphery ready to cast an uncertain moral light when…
Music: Born into Bands
Jared M. Holder It's not the Partridge Family, but Ron White (center) has lovingly guided his sons (Sky, left, and Eli) towards a life in music. What do MOTH and Foxy Shazam! have in common aside from exclamatory band names, busy tour schedules, impressive recordings, CEA wins and generally being two of the most…
Cover Story: Making A Killing
Jim Fuggett Why the Death Penalty in Ohio Remains So Controversial Photos by Graham Lienhart Carol Parcell of Akron isn't a private investigator or a lawyer. But she found new evidence in the case of a Death Row inmate, and she found it in what most would consider an unlikely place — the prosecutor's…
News: Police Chief Suspended
Cleves Mayor Danny Stacy placed Police Chief Mark Demeropolis on unpaid administrative suspension June 13. The suspension came upon the recommendation of the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office, which is conducting a criminal investigation of Demeropolis based on internal issues, according to Stacy. Assistant Prosecutor Bill Anderson, responsible for the Demeropolis investigation, declined to comment on…
Upcoming Concerts with Cursive, Rock Kills Kid and More….
Cursive Puffy Amiyumi Cursive with Make Believe and La Salle Thursday · Southgate House Keeping track of Cursive's elastic personnel and extensive discography is like tracing a 12-generation Mormon genealogy. The Omaha, Neb.-based band began over a decade ago as a natural progression from friendships and previous working relationships, leading to The Disruption, their…
Diner: Dining That’s Out of This World
Blue Moon Bistro Go: 520 E. Fifth St., Downtown Dayton Call: 937-586-4250 Hours: 5-9 p.m. Monday; 5-10 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 5-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday; closed Sunday Prices: Expensive Payment: Major credit cards Red Meat Alternatives: Poultry, seafood, pasta Accessibility: Yes Grade: A With the torrid pace of growth in Cincinnati's northern suburbs, they say that Cincinnati and…
Locals Only: : Planning The Invasion
Ryan Thomas Arms Exploding "I'm a little nervous about it," Arms Exploding's Michael Short says about playing live. "It's probably going to take a couple of shows for us to get comfortable on stage again." As I stood there, however, and watched Arms Exploding perform their first show at the Poison Room recently, I…
News: Democrats Make Peace
Matt Borgerding In a show of party unity, (L-R) Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory introduced attorney Paul Hackett, who endorsed former rival U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. Setting aside personal feelings and "political immaturity" in support of the Democratic Party, attorney Paul Hackett publicly came out in support of his…
The Racist Barber
Notes: I've always had bad luck at the barbershop, but this week's visit managed to top all of the others. I felt like someone transported me back in time when I heard the barber suggest that her former students weren't as smart because they were black. Over the years, I've made a point of avoiding…
Nicholas Gallery
Nicholas Gallery This untitled piece by Jeremy Nichols' is currently on view at Nicholas Gallery. If NICHOLAS GALLERY (23 E. Court St., Downtown) hasn't been on your gallery hop route yet, it's time to revise your map. Barely six months old, this young gallery has been impressive thus far, offering consistent yet varied programming.…
News: Journalism/Design Awards Don’t Suck
CityBeat won a slew of local, statewide and national journalism and design awards recently, a testament to the diverse talent presented in the paper each week. Sean Hughes was named Best Graphic Designer in Ohio for all newspapers under 100,000 circulation in the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) contest. It's the second time in…
Music: The Statute of Libertines
Libertines US Call 'em the "non-crack" version: Though they came first, Cincinnati's Libertines added "US" to their name to avoid confusion with the Brit band. "Jimmy (Davidson) calls me the Rock & Roll cicada," says The Libertines US frontman Walt Hodge with a laugh on the deck of his Sycamore Township home. It's an…
News to Use
Act to Protect Voting Rights The U.S. House is expected to vote this week on H.R. 9, the "Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006." A small group of Southern lawmakers want to gut the act and make it easier to discriminate against minority…
Living Out Loud: All Dogs Go to Heaven
When I laid the dog down on the sidewalk, I knew it was dying or already dead. Now, weeks later, I'm trying to come to terms with what I saw and how I handled it. In early May, a friend asked me to take him to the airport. He knew I didn't own a car…
Art: Not Surreal, Just Practical
University of South Florida Los Carpinteros' "Mano Creadora," or "Creative Hand," is part of their CAC exhibition, Inventing the World. Much of meaning has been written about the Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros. Especially impressive is Lilian Tone's essay, "Placeless Place," which eases Los Carpinteros' work — including their Inventing the World at the…
Writer Is Living in Parallel Universe
Bill Banchy of Anderson Twp. wrote a Letter to the Editor criticizing a Tom Tomorrow cartoon ("Not Impressed with 'Hypocrisy'," issue of July 5), calling it a "hate-filled, mocking satire" and claiming that the cartoonist used "trumped-up innuendo" and "ad hominem attack(s)." Banchy seems to live in a parallel universe where pundits like Ann Coulter…
Transformational Breathing
BY JANET BERG For centuries, Eastern thinking and philosophy has encouraged the use of breath work as restorative and life-enhancing. This knowledge and tradition is found in all meditative practices and martial arts. There are numerous breath techniques and schools of thought, but the most comprehensive one — from a physical, emotional and spiritual standpoint…
Release Party Madness
· The Goose is finally loose! The local four-piece — which features ex-Throneberry members Paul Cavins and Jason Arbenz, former Love Cowboys guitarist Jordan Arbenz (yes, Jason's younger bro) and Stapletons bassist Lance Stapleton — celebrates the completion of its long-in-the-works debut disc, Live It Up, Turn It Goose, downtown this weekend. Friday, they play…
In Abuse Lawsuit, Timing Is Everything
I'll sue you! Undoubtedly, we've all heard or uttered those words. How long is this threat good? In other words, can you sue someone forever, long after the perceived harm, or is there some cut off? There is indeed a cut off. The legal term for it is "statute of limitations." The statute of limitations…
Film: Where Is My Mind?
Warner Independent Uh, where are we?: Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder star in A Scanner Darkly, director Richard Linklater's head-tripping adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel. Richard Linklater's films buzz with incessant talk. Whether riffing on The Smurfs, conspiracy theories, Aerosmith or Dostoyevsky, his characters yearn to express their idiosyncratic perceptions. Linklater's 1991…
Film: Toothless
Frank Gehry (left) talks to director Sydney Pollack in a scene from The Sketches of Frank Gehry. There's no in-between with architect Frank Gehry. People either love his free-form, expressionistic visions — the curves, segments and layers, the designs inspired less by function than by objects that catch his eye — or they hate…
For the Poor and Against the War
Kathy Neus John Edwards works the crowd at Burnet Woods, where he spoke in support of an initiative to raise Ohio's minimum wage. Several hundred people — black, white, grey hairs, college kids and toddlers — gathered July 8 under the trees at the Burnet Woods gazebo in Clifton to rally support for raising…
